Article December 14, 1987 Issue

To become a healing church we must first be a...

Albert Keller

To become a healing church we must first be a healed church. We will not become a healing church by virtue of our strength or bigness or ability to get things done. We will get to be a healing church when our own thirst for healing is so great, and the restoration, purposefulness in Christ, and reconciliation are so powerful among us, that healing can't help overflowing into the lives of others, be they individuals or institutions or nations.

Healing ministry is costly. It was costly to Christ, it is costly to us, because the shadow of the Cross falls across such a ministry. But it is the only authentic ministry there is.

Albert Keller, pastor of the Circular Church in Charleston, South Carolina Reprinted from The Journal of Christian Healing, Spring 1987

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